I believe you forgot to mention that structured PvP equalizes all gear and levels for players, i guess that can be encouraging for players to try out new classes with a level 1 character
For PvP: your gear is equalized across all players. There is a tab in your equipment panel (armor/cross swords icon near the helm) that lets you swap over to the pvp panel so you can set your equipment up. For WvW: New players can go there, but I recommend going when you have your class to 80, have a basic understanding to your class and have it geared in at the very least - exotic tier armor. Exotic to ascended/legendary is like a 5% difference which isnt much. However, if you go before 80, itll boost you to 80 but your gear will be whatever it is. It doesnt equalize you like in PvP but you can find like minded individuals who are willing to teach the ropes to wvw. It is often fun chaos
Solid video, Ebon! Love seeing you covering other MMORPG's, havent played GW2 myself yet but I've been on the fence for a while and have been watching content on it ^^
Thank you, it's a good MMO for sure! It's been great to go around and actually experiencing all the MMOs I haven't had time for considering what WoW did to my life haha
Highly recommended. I didn't like it at 1st tbh cause I thought early stuff looked outdated. But I saw vidoes of the epic massive scale pve, pvp, and mount physics and I wanted that so bad. So I pushed through and now 7 yrs in and it's still my home. I gotta say I hated the combat and movement binds/settings at 1st so it took time to fiddle with them but it made the combat/movement experience s-teir for me so i recommend doing it.
Guild Wars 2 is the home you can always come back to. I was so overwhelmingly excited for it leading up to launch; i think the thief profession trailer must have 400 views from just me alone. I played for months and months at launch, but friends made me return to WoW and League. Years later i try Heavensward, and become a full 14 addict until Stormblood patch content. Yet every time i took a break from those game or when i burned out from grinding to 58 in BDO on launch, i always returned to GW2 in the interim, without fail. I really love the world, the feel of movement, the puzzles, the music... It's just magical. I just wish they had the armor/ clothing variety of XiV and then i might just have made it my full mainstay. If i could dress my Deadeye like my Machinist, my Bladewarden like my Gunbreaker, my Daredevil like my Ninja... Man it would be amazing. Here's hoping for GW3 ❤
As someone who started this game 3 days ago and reached lvl 56 on a guardian… I can definitely recommend this game, you have so many weapon choices and build variety. Pve is so funny and exploring the map is like an adventure and beautiful. For some reason I have a big urge to 100% complete all maps - it’s simple and fun discovering the maps, fight mobs, discover secrets and so on, I’m not even continuing my main quests since i would go nuts if the maps are not 100% xD. Additionally you will see a lot of players running around and it feels more then alive. Congratulations after reading this you are forced to play Guild wars 2.
A piece of advice: don't buy all the expantions at once. The first two,HoT and PoF, wich come in a pack together, are huge. I started in 2022 and in 3 months I played for more than 600 hours. I took a break and still haven't finished PoF until February 2024. Not to mention the Livng World's seasons, which you can buy with in game gold.
one very important thing, the account bound for ascended and legendary ... this means any classes that share the same weapons or armor types u can just share among the same account. so mostly full zerker for all 3 armor types and u can play any class dps in any content .. so much fun and friendly ... I rem having to retrain all my mounts in elder scroll .. that's horrible
Gw2 is my main game I play for the past 13 months and I love how they bring old content back to life like return to icebrood this week. Something so simple makes it well worth playing through all the icebrood stuff and farm it. I wish other games would take note. A lot of other rpgs or mmos will just never touch their old expansions or dlc but gw2 can just get a week of achievements with good loot and a ton of extra magic find plus materials. Feels good to mine ore at bjora and get good amount of materials and lots of bags dropping
Yeah it seems to have the best annual seasons and returning content in the genre. Same sht for a decade now but I still find it fun. Steve will always be there on halloween lol
@@hadi_SooT It is gonna happen its just in the pre-production stage. Probably not for another 5 or 6 years is my guess. Plenty of time to fill out the remaining 4 teased expansions
as much as i would love...i dont see guild wars 3 at least for the next 8 years but i hopefully am wrong , game is just absolutely legendary status , really applaud for ANET for surviving this long without being a triple massive A company like others
For me, the heavy focus on mounts to the point everything even the zones are now all designed around have a billion mounts is what made me lose interest. But there's no denying, it's one of the best MMOs in history. Some of the best fun, premount days.
I personally always have GW2 as my secondary MMO while rotating between many of the Triple A Vertical Progression MMOs. I feel GW2 is a great place to relax and play the game at your own pace. I play for the experiences that I have with other players. I feel as I have gotten older, the concept of GW2 is becoming more and more appealing as the years go by and having more commitments out of the game leads to certain games where your gear and stats are constantly improved upon every patch becomes more of a chore than enjoyment. I prefer Horizontal Progression a-lot now, especially since I have branched out to many other Genres of gaming, I love the pick up and play formulae that most new games tend to focus on. Love it or hate it, GW2 is here to stay, especially for people who love the MMO concept, but rather than chasing a number every patch, we play for the experiences. In comparison to your typical vertical progression MMOs, every new patch you are focused on one thing, quickly acquiring the highest Item Level gear. Every quest, dungeon, raid, world quest you do, you are thinking of the gear, you are tunnel visioned on that one goal, while you are completely ignoring the new content in-front of you. Even though GW2 has no gear progression, the ability to customize your build is quite amazing, sure if you want to maximize your DPS, there's only a handful of choices. You can choose to do harder content or stick with the more casual content. The beauty of GW2 is that you are rewarded for doing either. Now that the PvE Open World Legendary armor is released, players of all skill levels have access to the best gear in-game. Unlike in your typical Vertical Progression MMO where the best gear is locked behind difficult raids or pvp. Sure you can make counter arguments for each of these points, however what I'm trying to say is that GW2 gives all players an even playing field in terms of 'Power', the difference lies in your skill and dedication to the game, not some arbitrary number that is artificially increased every patch which leads players to be blinded to what's in-front of them.
Gw2 is the mmo you end up in when you're finally retiring from the years of doing gear threadmills your age and lifestyle can no longer support and just want a cozy(w/ optional sweaty)environment without dealing with the pressure of keeping up. By doing away with the vertical progression, every fight becomes skill based in the end which I highly prefer now.
@@lionmeows Well if it isn't the YTber who had his GW2 account banned for RMT, whereby he resorted to create a new GW2 account and publish countless negative videos about Arena Net and GW2, but eventually took all those videos down, maybe because hate farming wasn't profitable, due to GW2 having the most positive community of all MMO's, or maybe having crossed some T&C guidelines. My guy has certainly seen better days. Don't worry it's only up from here on.
@@WhosWhoInfoDoc I remember seeing a few videos from that guy, always barely scraping 100 views but always extremely negative towards GW2. I didn't know the backstory behind his hatred. I mean, RMT has ruined many games, I'm heavily against it myself. He should learn from his mistakes and move on, rather than hold a grudge against the game. He knew the risks when he made those transactions.
I’ve read somewhere that GW3 is still in approval stages. Even if development were to start we still got years to play it. They plan on dropping expansions/updates for another 2-3 years… I’m getting back in.. WARBORN
I played gw 2 for 8000 hours over a span of about a decade with league of legends and dota 2 breaks. However I always returned to the game until I quit in late 2022. I had been there and done that. I had every class geared and at 80. my main characters were full legendary. I had played through every dungeon and fractal hundreds of times. I had full cleared raids for a couple years. I was time to move on. great game, but now that I don't have as much time and energy as before I prefer playing single player games.
I've got mates who's been playing for years but it never got to me like WoW did. I want something new to play and GW2 crossed my mind. Am I required to start off with expansion packs or can I jump straight in and get a feel for it before investing anything, what are your recommendations?
It makes you start with the base storyline and I'd recommend it as well! If you're not vibing with the game by 80, I'd say wait for there to be a sale and try the Xpacs. People swear by them and they are definitely amazing and worth giving a shot. But see if you enjoy the base game first.
I played GW2 on and off since beta, and it finally clicked with me just a few weeks ago. The first time you do a meta event with 50 to 70 other people in HoT is as addicting as crack.
lol That's insane. Have you played the other expacs? HoT maps are the most popular daily but Dragon's End is still the most epic large scale 2hr long meta imo.
A lot of misinformation in the comments about Gw3. Yes, It was confirmed that Anet had been working on a gw3 project but was later clarified to be in the review stage which matches the fact anet had been hiring for a new mmorpg that was in pre-production at the time. They're still working on it today and seem to have moved on to full development hiring positions such as a production director to oversee it's development "to launch and beyond".
GW2 is truly amazing but the horizontal progression at max level is really not for everyone. i wish they offered some vertical progression too cause the content they have to offer is 10/10 also gear in 5v5 doesn't matter, it is normalised for everyone
That's the selling point for the crowd it's aiming for. Purposefuly designed to cater the a specific kind of mmo player. It's really not meant to appeal for those who prefer the endless gear threadmill cause we already have that everywhere else.
GW2 is a game I pop in here and there, never made it to end game yet, struggling to choose a class to stick with XD on top of that im an anxious gamer, always second guessing what my build should be, or if i should follow a build from online...im old school so I try to do my own builds.
Hey brother, I don't do Classic videos on this channel anymore! Just on Stream mostly, with videos and shorts on the 2nd channel. I've been going down the high quality video essays route as of late! I still love WoW and play and talk about it, just sadly not on this channel!
I wouldn't call it a masterpiece but it's definitely a fun game and the easiest to get into if you're a brand new player. (Although, the bar is set pretty low on that since WoW and FF14 are it's main competitors and those games are the opposite of fun for brand new players)
I had my fun with gw2 years ago. Had even more fun with gw1. Tried gw2 again with friends but it was pretty boring to be honest. Now i wait for GW3 to jump back in.
Funny enough, according to numbers, SPvP has much much less players compared to WvW. Which means you are more likely to face a player that has never left his character and gamemode ever since the release of the game, than you are in WvW. The progression curve of getting good in SPvP, or at least hoping to be good is a a huge vertical wall. But SPvP is indeed a better place to start getting into PvP than WvW. After all it is your classic 5v5 capture/hold point you find in any gamemode and your character gear doesnt matter. WvW is where GW2 stands out from other MMO. It isnt perfect by any mean but it is different enough that despite the big mess and frustration a 30 vs 30 it can bring, it equally brings its share of fun. Your character gear does matter in this gamemode which means you have more building freedom over SPvP. Your skill and trait selection also matters more than you may think because this time you are facing both PvE lord (tower/keep/castle champions) and players but you arent restricted in a small arena instead you have an entire map at your disposal so movement skills are also very important. Placement are even more important in this gamemode because of structure. When taking a fight, there are places that are basically death trap. Well I'm not going to make a full list of pros and cons regarding WvW but long story short, yes it isnt a place I would recommend for new player but at the same time if you are looking for a PvP gamemode that is somewhat different and unique, then WvW is the place to go.
Idk I am a new player and got addicted to SPvP got to plat in like 1 month of playing Untamed mainly (a lot of keybinds), but also spellbreaker and Scrapper. Lots of streamers with like 15k hours of SPvP make it easy to learn/YT vids.
Gw2 will die and your achievements will carry over like gw1 - 2. Or PoE1-2 with your mtx stuff. lol idk. I've played for 7 yrs I'm not afraid to lose progress and start all over if the new game is gonna be THAT good. But the mmo environment is about to change. It will be very difficult to pull in new players once the Riot MMO comes out.
Well, GW1 lives to this day and you can experience it whenever you want. Furthermore, some achievements from GW1 translates into GW2 giving you extra stuff like titles and cosmetics. From GW3 I'm expecting something similar.
downloading guildwars 2 right now ... tell whoever is in charge to smarten up, been scaping for 20 years apart from EOC , ill quit again if that survey goes live. Also, when prices went up a few months ago i cancelled my other accounts its just my main left .....
I am a new player and i am struggling with the story of the game and the quests in general i feel that it is boring and not engaging there are long texts and messages to read but if there is any cut scene for any event in the story i don't mind it I'm more into exploration and doing world quests like if i ran to any NPC i just don't talk to it i see what I'm asked for finish it gets rewarded and move on am i the only one who plays differently
Yeah I'm 7 yrs in and I agree. It's slog. Just skip them. What kept me going was after I saw videos of the epic massive scale map events where everyone's zerging around multple objectives and world bosses combined with the best mount physics in the genre. Also a bit of large scale pvp. That made the massive multiplayer experience feel organic and now it's hard for me to drop cause it's so fun. It takes a while to get there if you're into that so I recommend just fire up some yt or neflix while lvling up. Also helped when I fiddled with the combat inputs and turned on Action-cam. Makes the combat feel more action oriented and enjoyable esp in melee classes. th-cam.com/video/ms7IBrWpNRs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=R50AKvqVeJl-3w51
Its kinda funny that gw2 seems to get more players those days but I need a break of gw2 this days 😂 Since few years I feel like it annoys me to do the same things every day. And yea, the janthir wilds maps are nice but its kinda sad, that the first map did not get a propper meta for replayability. And 2/3 hearts are pretty boring to repeat too. Since I dont like the new spear and spears in general there is something missing for me. That being said, I really enjoy to replay the core maps and heart of thornes. Basically doing this a lot 😂
I play on controller, through steam controller support, there aren't too many buttons so it works out fine. There is one thing I don't think you can do - walk back and shooting spells foreword, which is important in PVP I think. For the most part it is good.
@@nikolaypopov9509With the action-cam settings you can. I fiddled with the controller and I thought it was functional and you can persist with it. But queueing felt very slow. Ended up back to kbm. I can just react and queue actions much faster with it.
Anyone care to tell me how to register an account on arenanet then? I've tried on 4 different devices and 3 different browsers and everyone I try to register for it game it just loads and loads or errors and won't let me create a new account.....
This games devs are not prioritizing this game. The money spent here is largely going to the next project. Community here mostly goes unheard. Just be warned, it is not all rainbows and unicorns. I love the game, just very much dislike the direction and lack of communication and concern for player base.
If you are new player in nerf war 2 in 2025 its fun new game. If you are veteran player in nerf war 2 this a joke game. If you are new please remember its nerf war 2. For the love of good its nerf war 2.
Imagine for 13 years not being able to add new playable race or something so basic as even a race change, that so many other games have had since their beginning... and the clunkiest mounts the game world has ever seen .. omg the tediousness... Now let the sheep-fanboys blind defending begin xD
Still shadow muted it think. That concluded. Back to the subject of GW2 and game movement. Most games your toon is center screen doing movements against a digital green screen as background. Similar to how CGI stands out to me in some cases as clear as day in badly cgi'd movies and shows. If for any reason the toon's movements and the "green screen" behind it are not a complete fusion. That is what I define as "jankiness" . And the more obvious it is the more offputting I find it. GW was jankier then GW2. But Rifts was worse. But that's just my perception of games involving movement. Or games easily plagued with lag.
A hunter, sticks up for mage of all classes. And I pick up a YT shadow mute, for doing the right thing in front of a mob. But there is a certain rush. Doing David against Goliath. Standing alone against a wall of hatred. It's a viewpoint no streamer wants. But as a individual gamer. When required I do it on a regular basis.
Hey man, I don't actually set the ads! I have it on automatic. So that's YT. I would personally recommend an ad-block of some kind! Sorry about the experience though.
I can understand your complaint but the bar switching with your weapon is both really cool thematically especially with each profession using the weapons in a different way and mechanically making you choose different weapons for different situations. It's a very MMO specific complaint to not be able to change your bar, in action RPGs and other game genres it's pretty common to have pre set skills that you can't edit and especially weapon movesets, it makes sense that when I equip a sword I get a different set of attacks with it then I do when I equip a pistol in the same hand.
@@DaRealJGRIFthat’s not really what I was getting at. I lie, the swaps between weapons, just that I can’t move those abilities to different buttons on the bar. They just don’t feel like they’re in a logical order. Ie, if you always use a certain skill on button 5, then it’s nice to have all your characters that can have a certain skill use “5” to pop the skill. Instead of “5” on this class, “2” on another class and “4” on another. Just makes the game feel really janky and was my prime reason to go back to wow classic. There’s no real reason why UI’s can’t be fully customisable these days imho. You can do it on the right bar! Just not the left…. Odd choice!
@@Salubrious388 Again it's something that your used to from other tab target MMOs which is fine, but I wouldn't say it's an odd choice. Action MMOs and just general action rpgs will have the same buttons do different actions on different buttons, GW2 is a hybrid system. As someone who plays a lot of different genres outside of MMOs the weapons actually feeling different both aesthetically and based on buttons I press is more fun for me. Learning how to use the different weapons is part of the fun An example completely outside of MMOs would be a Dark Souls Game, In DS3 the two ultra greatswords zweihander and Greatsword could just be reskins that have a light attack that sweeps across horizontally and a heavy attack that's a thrust, but they have different movesets with the zweihander doing horizontal swipes as a light attack and an overhead slam as a heavy and the greatsword has an overhead slam as a light attack and a thrust as a heavy (while two handing). These are weapons in the same category with different moves. Using the same logic isn't choosing your utilities (right bar) similar to choosing what items and spells to have in your quick selection and attunements in dark souls? Your weapon has a preset moveset but you can augment your combat with spells and items that you choose to bring. From an action RPG perspective GW2 is pretty normal from a tab target MMO perspective it's unique.
the proble i have with gw2 is that when you hit legendary gear there isnt anything to chase for anymore other then achievements and new story/zone completion i need that gear grind to last me a LOOOOONG time for me to be interested in a mmorpg game.
@@XBPReginleif it has been like this since launch as soo as you get dawn breaker or twilight i think its called you had the BIS item in the game since launch till now i dont like that its boring i need a item to chase to make it interesting to me kinda like a arpg.
@@GW2KillerBEEthis is why wow will always keep more players engaged tbh. people complain about the gear resets every season but I get bored and stop logging in when I don’t have gear to farm.
The core game is 100% free. That lets you get to 80, experience 31 different maps including towns (25 excluding), the core dungeons (like AC/CM/Arah etc.), and 8 of the 9 core classes (rev is a HoT expansion class). The only thing I am not certain if they count it for the free experience or put it into lws1 kind of thing are the fractals. Regardless, the core game is hundreds of hours of content. So it is not expensive to try the game out. Plus the expansions are often on sale, so can always wait for a sale to come up before buying if you enjoy the core game experience.
I tried both GW2 and Rifts to try an kick my wow addiction back in the day. Never took. I am ruined on wow's simple toonish graphics. Movement in GW2 and Rifts both. Always felt janky to me compared to wow.
Rift is another MMO I'm planning on trying out soon. It's definitely interesting, I won't lie. They play differently from some of the more popular MMOs for sure though.
@@Royal.Grand.Majesty I've played wow too long. It's ruined my appreciation of high graphic games.Everything with better improved graphics always feels slightly off to me.
That's nice and all, but... The GW3 segment is just your own speculation. Every official statement they've released is very clear about any possibility of GW3 and when that would theoretically happen, if it was being worked on. Now, if you personally want to believe something other than what was officially stated, you're free to do so but then you're simply offering your opinion, your interpretation of what was said. I believe it's worth mentioning that during that segment, instead of saying it's basically facts.
@@mrmeepsyt5917 There is no release date because it is yet again another leak of share holders talking about thinking a GW3 is happening because of what the devs said half a decade ago about trying a GW3 concept test, but neglecting to mention the part that it was abandoned.
I think i had exactly the same character like u at launch and i was bored beyond belief after a month, the pvp was balls too and after getting max gear it feels like u can only do repetitive dogwater content to horizontally progress. I guess it;'s different in 2025?
Bla bla bla... This video should have been like 5 min long. I lost interest after 3-4 min. Thumbs down for wasting people time with endless insignificant talk.
I love it, but it s too big. As soon as they launch a new expansion no body walks the « old » zone anymore. And it does lack a lot à build creativity as every mmo nowadays…
I believe you forgot to mention that structured PvP equalizes all gear and levels for players, i guess that can be encouraging for players to try out new classes with a level 1 character
For PvP: your gear is equalized across all players. There is a tab in your equipment panel (armor/cross swords icon near the helm) that lets you swap over to the pvp panel so you can set your equipment up.
For WvW: New players can go there, but I recommend going when you have your class to 80, have a basic understanding to your class and have it geared in at the very least - exotic tier armor. Exotic to ascended/legendary is like a 5% difference which isnt much. However, if you go before 80, itll boost you to 80 but your gear will be whatever it is. It doesnt equalize you like in PvP but you can find like minded individuals who are willing to teach the ropes to wvw. It is often fun chaos
Solid video, Ebon!
Love seeing you covering other MMORPG's, havent played GW2 myself yet but I've been on the fence for a while and have been watching content on it ^^
Thank you, it's a good MMO for sure! It's been great to go around and actually experiencing all the MMOs I haven't had time for considering what WoW did to my life haha
Highly recommended. I didn't like it at 1st tbh cause I thought early stuff looked outdated. But I saw vidoes of the epic massive scale pve, pvp, and mount physics and I wanted that so bad. So I pushed through and now 7 yrs in and it's still my home.
I gotta say I hated the combat and movement binds/settings at 1st so it took time to fiddle with them but it made the combat/movement experience s-teir for me so i recommend doing it.
5:24 $7.50 for expansion 1&2 btw. insane value. goes on sale 2-3 times a year. guaranteed around Christmas time
yeah, that's insane. Probably the most money to content ratio that has ever existed
Guild Wars 2 is the home you can always come back to.
I was so overwhelmingly excited for it leading up to launch; i think the thief profession trailer must have 400 views from just me alone. I played for months and months at launch, but friends made me return to WoW and League. Years later i try Heavensward, and become a full 14 addict until Stormblood patch content.
Yet every time i took a break from those game or when i burned out from grinding to 58 in BDO on launch, i always returned to GW2 in the interim, without fail.
I really love the world, the feel of movement, the puzzles, the music... It's just magical. I just wish they had the armor/ clothing variety of XiV and then i might just have made it my full mainstay. If i could dress my Deadeye like my Machinist, my Bladewarden like my Gunbreaker, my Daredevil like my Ninja... Man it would be amazing.
Here's hoping for GW3 ❤
As someone who started this game 3 days ago and reached lvl 56 on a guardian… I can definitely recommend this game, you have so many weapon choices and build variety. Pve is so funny and exploring the map is like an adventure and beautiful. For some reason I have a big urge to 100% complete all maps - it’s simple and fun discovering the maps, fight mobs, discover secrets and so on, I’m not even continuing my main quests since i would go nuts if the maps are not 100% xD. Additionally you will see a lot of players running around and it feels more then alive. Congratulations after reading this you are forced to play Guild wars 2.
A piece of advice: don't buy all the expantions at once. The first two,HoT and PoF, wich come in a pack together, are huge. I started in 2022 and in 3 months I played for more than 600 hours. I took a break and still haven't finished PoF until February 2024. Not to mention the Livng World's seasons, which you can buy with in game gold.
@@bilibistrox Not when you can have them all from end of dragons.
"Cat, Dog, Man thing" LOL. Excellent! Love this game and thanks for a great video.
one very important thing, the account bound for ascended and legendary ...
this means any classes that share the same weapons or armor types u can just share among the same account.
so mostly full zerker for all 3 armor types and u can play any class dps in any content ..
so much fun and friendly ...
I rem having to retrain all my mounts in elder scroll .. that's horrible
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True and real Mr Medinaman.
Gw2 is my main game I play for the past 13 months and I love how they bring old content back to life like return to icebrood this week. Something so simple makes it well worth playing through all the icebrood stuff and farm it. I wish other games would take note. A lot of other rpgs or mmos will just never touch their old expansions or dlc but gw2 can just get a week of achievements with good loot and a ton of extra magic find plus materials. Feels good to mine ore at bjora and get good amount of materials and lots of bags dropping
Yeah it seems to have the best annual seasons and returning content in the genre. Same sht for a decade now but I still find it fun. Steve will always be there on halloween lol
Good work man!
Thank you! I've got so many more of these essays to go. ESO is in a few days
GW2 its amazing! I Can't wait for GW3!
Same, 12 years of GW2, it's about time for the sequel haha
gw3 not going to happen and anet already confirmed that, stop spreading false info
They just just upgrade GW2 with a new engine or directX 12
I was worried at first, but honestly an engine update and playable tengu and kodan are something to look foward to
@@hadi_SooT It is gonna happen its just in the pre-production stage. Probably not for another 5 or 6 years is my guess. Plenty of time to fill out the remaining 4 teased expansions
as much as i would love...i dont see guild wars 3 at least for the next 8 years but i hopefully am wrong , game is just absolutely legendary status , really applaud for ANET for surviving this long without being a triple massive A company like others
Based GW2 content, amazingly fun game. 👍
GW2 on max settings and 3440x1440p resolution = chef's kiss
For me, the heavy focus on mounts to the point everything even the zones are now all designed around have a billion mounts is what made me lose interest. But there's no denying, it's one of the best MMOs in history. Some of the best fun, premount days.
I personally always have GW2 as my secondary MMO while rotating between many of the Triple A Vertical Progression MMOs.
I feel GW2 is a great place to relax and play the game at your own pace. I play for the experiences that I have with other players.
I feel as I have gotten older, the concept of GW2 is becoming more and more appealing as the years go by and having more commitments out of the game leads to certain games where your gear and stats are constantly improved upon every patch becomes more of a chore than enjoyment. I prefer Horizontal Progression a-lot now, especially since I have branched out to many other Genres of gaming, I love the pick up and play formulae that most new games tend to focus on. Love it or hate it, GW2 is here to stay, especially for people who love the MMO concept, but rather than chasing a number every patch, we play for the experiences. In comparison to your typical vertical progression MMOs, every new patch you are focused on one thing, quickly acquiring the highest Item Level gear. Every quest, dungeon, raid, world quest you do, you are thinking of the gear, you are tunnel visioned on that one goal, while you are completely ignoring the new content in-front of you.
Even though GW2 has no gear progression, the ability to customize your build is quite amazing, sure if you want to maximize your DPS, there's only a handful of choices. You can choose to do harder content or stick with the more casual content. The beauty of GW2 is that you are rewarded for doing either. Now that the PvE Open World Legendary armor is released, players of all skill levels have access to the best gear in-game. Unlike in your typical Vertical Progression MMO where the best gear is locked behind difficult raids or pvp. Sure you can make counter arguments for each of these points, however what I'm trying to say is that GW2 gives all players an even playing field in terms of 'Power', the difference lies in your skill and dedication to the game, not some arbitrary number that is artificially increased every patch which leads players to be blinded to what's in-front of them.
Gw2 is the mmo you end up in when you're finally retiring from the years of doing gear threadmills your age and lifestyle can no longer support and just want a cozy(w/ optional sweaty)environment without dealing with the pressure of keeping up. By doing away with the vertical progression, every fight becomes skill based in the end which I highly prefer now.
@@Oryyyt love the optional sweat
Look at the same Guidl wars 2 losers trying to promote their game. You guys copy and paste this crap. Only the biggest losers play this game.
@@lionmeows Well if it isn't the YTber who had his GW2 account banned for RMT, whereby he resorted to create a new GW2 account and publish countless negative videos about Arena Net and GW2, but eventually took all those videos down, maybe because hate farming wasn't profitable, due to GW2 having the most positive community of all MMO's, or maybe having crossed some T&C guidelines. My guy has certainly seen better days. Don't worry it's only up from here on.
@@WhosWhoInfoDoc I remember seeing a few videos from that guy, always barely scraping 100 views but always extremely negative towards GW2. I didn't know the backstory behind his hatred. I mean, RMT has ruined many games, I'm heavily against it myself. He should learn from his mistakes and move on, rather than hold a grudge against the game.
He knew the risks when he made those transactions.
you got me GOOD in the shane dawson part, omg that was so funny 😭😭
Gear doesn't matter in PvP arenas. You just set your stats.
Using the action cam makes it feel like it's not really tab targeting.
I’ve read somewhere that GW3 is still in approval stages. Even if development were to start we still got years to play it. They plan on dropping expansions/updates for another 2-3 years… I’m getting back in.. WARBORN
What I love about GW2 is that no players looks the same. And there is no chash shop needed for that.
with reshade you can make it look absolutely beautiful too,
it still holds up with games of today.
This game... This game. I love it! Pick a direction, muck around, find out. Have fun! Have Marjory Delaqua say "Hey, sugar..."
I started this game 3 days ago, and I had no idea how to play this kind of MMORPG! But this game hooked me! I wish I had played it beforehand
That’s fantastic. It’s a great game. Sorry this content creator sucks and never responded to you. GL and have fun!
Pushing you to max level is exactly why I quit playing this game after a couple hours.
I played gw 2 for 8000 hours over a span of about a decade with league of legends and dota 2 breaks. However I always returned to the game until I quit in late 2022. I had been there and done that. I had every class geared and at 80. my main characters were full legendary. I had played through every dungeon and fractal hundreds of times. I had full cleared raids for a couple years. I was time to move on. great game, but now that I don't have as much time and energy as before I prefer playing single player games.
wow that's a lot..
I've got mates who's been playing for years but it never got to me like WoW did. I want something new to play and GW2 crossed my mind. Am I required to start off with expansion packs or can I jump straight in and get a feel for it before investing anything, what are your recommendations?
It makes you start with the base storyline and I'd recommend it as well! If you're not vibing with the game by 80, I'd say wait for there to be a sale and try the Xpacs. People swear by them and they are definitely amazing and worth giving a shot. But see if you enjoy the base game first.
From someone who's played since beta and has over 14,000 hours. Welcome to Tyria, newcomers!
UwU.
I played GW2 on and off since beta, and it finally clicked with me just a few weeks ago. The first time you do a meta event with 50 to 70 other people in HoT is as addicting as crack.
lol That's insane. Have you played the other expacs? HoT maps are the most popular daily but Dragon's End is still the most epic large scale 2hr long meta imo.
"Cats don't respect cucks, especially in GW2" Classic!
A lot of misinformation in the comments about Gw3. Yes, It was confirmed that Anet had been working on a gw3 project but was later clarified to be in the review stage which matches the fact anet had been hiring for a new mmorpg that was in pre-production at the time. They're still working on it today and seem to have moved on to full development hiring positions such as a production director to oversee it's development "to launch and beyond".
GW2 is truly amazing but the horizontal progression at max level is really not for everyone. i wish they offered some vertical progression too cause the content they have to offer is 10/10
also gear in 5v5 doesn't matter, it is normalised for everyone
It's definitely not for everyone, I will admit, but I'm a fan of it, as it always allows me to jump back in whenever they release a new expansion!
That's the selling point for the crowd it's aiming for. Purposefuly designed to cater the a specific kind of mmo player. It's really not meant to appeal for those who prefer the endless gear threadmill cause we already have that everywhere else.
masterpiece of information!
GW2 is a game I pop in here and there, never made it to end game yet, struggling to choose a class to stick with XD on top of that im an anxious gamer, always second guessing what my build should be, or if i should follow a build from online...im old school so I try to do my own builds.
Oh yes, Guild War 2 caught another one. Soon itll convert them all !
Not sure I’d call it a masterpiece. I remember GW2 having probably the worst endgame and world PvP of about any mmo I’ve played.
bro where are you at?/ bearly uploading and now also kara crpts is out no videos no nothing?? ur killing me man miss the classic + videos
Hey brother, I don't do Classic videos on this channel anymore! Just on Stream mostly, with videos and shorts on the 2nd channel. I've been going down the high quality video essays route as of late! I still love WoW and play and talk about it, just sadly not on this channel!
Janthir and Secrets of Obscure are not EXPANSIONS :D
I wouldn't call it a masterpiece but it's definitely a fun game and the easiest to get into if you're a brand new player. (Although, the bar is set pretty low on that since WoW and FF14 are it's main competitors and those games are the opposite of fun for brand new players)
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Played when it came out not played in years been thinking of trying it out agin
I had my fun with gw2 years ago. Had even more fun with gw1. Tried gw2 again with friends but it was pretty boring to be honest. Now i wait for GW3 to jump back in.
Funny enough, according to numbers, SPvP has much much less players compared to WvW. Which means you are more likely to face a player that has never left his character and gamemode ever since the release of the game, than you are in WvW. The progression curve of getting good in SPvP, or at least hoping to be good is a a huge vertical wall. But SPvP is indeed a better place to start getting into PvP than WvW. After all it is your classic 5v5 capture/hold point you find in any gamemode and your character gear doesnt matter.
WvW is where GW2 stands out from other MMO. It isnt perfect by any mean but it is different enough that despite the big mess and frustration a 30 vs 30 it can bring, it equally brings its share of fun. Your character gear does matter in this gamemode which means you have more building freedom over SPvP. Your skill and trait selection also matters more than you may think because this time you are facing both PvE lord (tower/keep/castle champions) and players but you arent restricted in a small arena instead you have an entire map at your disposal so movement skills are also very important. Placement are even more important in this gamemode because of structure. When taking a fight, there are places that are basically death trap. Well I'm not going to make a full list of pros and cons regarding WvW but long story short, yes it isnt a place I would recommend for new player but at the same time if you are looking for a PvP gamemode that is somewhat different and unique, then WvW is the place to go.
Idk I am a new player and got addicted to SPvP got to plat in like 1 month of playing Untamed mainly (a lot of keybinds), but also spellbreaker and Scrapper.
Lots of streamers with like 15k hours of SPvP make it easy to learn/YT vids.
Guys what happens to gw2 when gw3 launches? Do they merge or we lose all progress?
Gw2 will die and your achievements will carry over like gw1 - 2. Or PoE1-2 with your mtx stuff. lol idk. I've played for 7 yrs I'm not afraid to lose progress and start all over if the new game is gonna be THAT good. But the mmo environment is about to change. It will be very difficult to pull in new players once the Riot MMO comes out.
Well, GW1 lives to this day and you can experience it whenever you want. Furthermore, some achievements from GW1 translates into GW2 giving you extra stuff like titles and cosmetics. From GW3 I'm expecting something similar.
YEET
downloading guildwars 2 right now ... tell whoever is in charge to smarten up, been scaping for 20 years apart from EOC , ill quit again if that survey goes live. Also, when prices went up a few months ago i cancelled my other accounts its just my main left .....
I am a new player and i am struggling with the story of the game and the quests in general i feel that it is boring and not engaging there are long texts and messages to read but if there is any cut scene for any event in the story i don't mind it I'm more into exploration and doing world quests like if i ran to any NPC i just don't talk to it i see what I'm asked for finish it gets rewarded and move on am i the only one who plays differently
It’s a really old, dated mmo like EverQuest. It didn’t age very well especially the questing.
Yeah I'm 7 yrs in and I agree. It's slog. Just skip them. What kept me going was after I saw videos of the epic massive scale map events where everyone's zerging around multple objectives and world bosses combined with the best mount physics in the genre. Also a bit of large scale pvp. That made the massive multiplayer experience feel organic and now it's hard for me to drop cause it's so fun. It takes a while to get there if you're into that so I recommend just fire up some yt or neflix while lvling up. Also helped when I fiddled with the combat inputs and turned on Action-cam. Makes the combat feel more action oriented and enjoyable esp in melee classes.
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make a game better than wow? i got you, just wait another 20 years🙂👍
Someday, perhaps Guild Wars 3, the Riot MMO or any mystery upcoming MMO. There's a chance that someday it could happen
I wish I can play GW3 in PS5 so my niece can play it to
😂 poor begging console trash noob losing all games over time and has to watch real exclusives on TH-cam
GW2 on top❤
Its kinda funny that gw2 seems to get more players those days but I need a break of gw2 this days 😂 Since few years I feel like it annoys me to do the same things every day. And yea, the janthir wilds maps are nice but its kinda sad, that the first map did not get a propper meta for replayability. And 2/3 hearts are pretty boring to repeat too. Since I dont like the new spear and spears in general there is something missing for me.
That being said, I really enjoy to replay the core maps and heart of thornes. Basically doing this a lot 😂
gw3 when ?
How can you have both alliance and horde flag? There is only one TRUE side. xD
If you play both sides, you never lose. (They keep butchering the Horde)
how is the controller support cause that is the reason i haven't tried the game
Use REWASD its a third party program.
I play on controller, through steam controller support, there aren't too many buttons so it works out fine. There is one thing I don't think you can do - walk back and shooting spells foreword, which is important in PVP I think. For the most part it is good.
@@nikolaypopov9509With the action-cam settings you can. I fiddled with the controller and I thought it was functional and you can persist with it. But queueing felt very slow. Ended up back to kbm. I can just react and queue actions much faster with it.
Anyone care to tell me how to register an account on arenanet then? I've tried on 4 different devices and 3 different browsers and everyone I try to register for it game it just loads and loads or errors and won't let me create a new account.....
This games devs are not prioritizing this game. The money spent here is largely going to the next project. Community here mostly goes unheard. Just be warned, it is not all rainbows and unicorns. I love the game, just very much dislike the direction and lack of communication and concern for player base.
Too bad you didn't talk about raids and strike missions. You would definitely change your mind at the end...
03:24 Blood and warfare? After playing through Space Marine 2, this looks not impressing.
If you are new player in nerf war 2 in 2025 its fun new game. If you are veteran player in nerf war 2 this a joke game. If you are new please remember its nerf war 2. For the love of good its nerf war 2.
Gw3 is not happening. It was a stunt. Gw2 will be upgraded further as time goes on.
Imagine for 13 years not being able to add new playable race or something so basic as even a race change, that so many other games have had since their beginning... and the clunkiest mounts the game world has ever seen .. omg the tediousness...
Now let the sheep-fanboys blind defending begin xD
Still shadow muted it think.
That concluded. Back to the subject of GW2 and game movement. Most games your toon is center screen doing movements against a digital green screen as background. Similar to how CGI stands out to me in some cases as clear as day in badly cgi'd movies and shows.
If for any reason the toon's movements and the "green screen" behind it are not a complete fusion. That is what I define as "jankiness" . And the more obvious it is the more offputting I find it. GW was jankier then GW2. But Rifts was worse.
But that's just my perception of games involving movement. Or games easily plagued with lag.
A hunter, sticks up for mage of all classes.
And I pick up a YT shadow mute, for doing the right thing in front of a mob.
But there is a certain rush. Doing David against Goliath. Standing alone against a wall of hatred.
It's a viewpoint no streamer wants. But as a individual gamer. When required I do it on a regular basis.
Dude I’m not watching your content again. 3 ads in 3 minutes! A minute of content for one ad that’s insane. 😊
Hey man, I don't actually set the ads! I have it on automatic. So that's YT. I would personally recommend an ad-block of some kind! Sorry about the experience though.
Loved the idea of the game and the exploration but the main issue with the game is the horrid UI and not being able to change the left bar! :(
I can understand your complaint but the bar switching with your weapon is both really cool thematically especially with each profession using the weapons in a different way and mechanically making you choose different weapons for different situations.
It's a very MMO specific complaint to not be able to change your bar, in action RPGs and other game genres it's pretty common to have pre set skills that you can't edit and especially weapon movesets, it makes sense that when I equip a sword I get a different set of attacks with it then I do when I equip a pistol in the same hand.
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@@DaRealJGRIFthat’s not really what I was getting at. I lie, the swaps between weapons, just that I can’t move those abilities to different buttons on the bar. They just don’t feel like they’re in a logical order. Ie, if you always use a certain skill on button 5, then it’s nice to have all your characters that can have a certain skill use “5” to pop the skill. Instead of “5” on this class, “2” on another class and “4” on another. Just makes the game feel really janky and was my prime reason to go back to wow classic. There’s no real reason why UI’s can’t be fully customisable these days imho. You can do it on the right bar! Just not the left…. Odd choice!
@@Salubrious388 Again it's something that your used to from other tab target MMOs which is fine, but I wouldn't say it's an odd choice.
Action MMOs and just general action rpgs will have the same buttons do different actions on different buttons, GW2 is a hybrid system.
As someone who plays a lot of different genres outside of MMOs the weapons actually feeling different both aesthetically and based on buttons I press is more fun for me. Learning how to use the different weapons is part of the fun
An example completely outside of MMOs would be a Dark Souls Game, In DS3 the two ultra greatswords zweihander and Greatsword could just be reskins that have a light attack that sweeps across horizontally and a heavy attack that's a thrust, but they have different movesets with the zweihander doing horizontal swipes as a light attack and an overhead slam as a heavy and the greatsword has an overhead slam as a light attack and a thrust as a heavy (while two handing).
These are weapons in the same category with different moves.
Using the same logic isn't choosing your utilities (right bar) similar to choosing what items and spells to have in your quick selection and attunements in dark souls? Your weapon has a preset moveset but you can augment your combat with spells and items that you choose to bring.
From an action RPG perspective GW2 is pretty normal from a tab target MMO perspective it's unique.
the proble i have with gw2 is that when you hit legendary gear there isnt anything to chase for anymore other then achievements and new story/zone completion i need that gear grind to last me a LOOOOONG time for me to be interested in a mmorpg game.
I guess you have a character full legendary equipment, that's cool.
@@XBPReginleif it has been like this since launch as soo as you get dawn breaker or twilight i think its called you had the BIS item in the game since launch till now i dont like that its boring i need a item to chase to make it interesting to me kinda like a arpg.
@@GW2KillerBEEthis is why wow will always keep more players engaged tbh. people complain about the gear resets every season but I get bored and stop logging in when I don’t have gear to farm.
The game sucks and the biggest losers on the internet play this game.
Too expensive to try
The core game is 100% free. That lets you get to 80, experience 31 different maps including towns (25 excluding), the core dungeons (like AC/CM/Arah etc.), and 8 of the 9 core classes (rev is a HoT expansion class). The only thing I am not certain if they count it for the free experience or put it into lws1 kind of thing are the fractals. Regardless, the core game is hundreds of hours of content. So it is not expensive to try the game out.
Plus the expansions are often on sale, so can always wait for a sale to come up before buying if you enjoy the core game experience.
literally how.
LMAO a Masterpiece of lackluster noise in the genre yes.
Nah it isn't , you just wish it was .
I tried both GW2 and Rifts to try an kick my wow addiction back in the day.
Never took. I am ruined on wow's simple toonish graphics. Movement in GW2 and Rifts both. Always felt janky to me compared to wow.
Rift is another MMO I'm planning on trying out soon. It's definitely interesting, I won't lie. They play differently from some of the more popular MMOs for sure though.
WoW is trash and ugly AF
That's odd, since movement fluidity is something Guild Wars 2 is great at, especially mount animations and combat.
@@Royal.Grand.Majesty I've played wow too long. It's ruined my appreciation of high graphic games.Everything with better improved graphics always feels slightly off to me.
That's nice and all, but... The GW3 segment is just your own speculation. Every official statement they've released is very clear about any possibility of GW3 and when that would theoretically happen, if it was being worked on. Now, if you personally want to believe something other than what was officially stated, you're free to do so but then you're simply offering your opinion, your interpretation of what was said. I believe it's worth mentioning that during that segment, instead of saying it's basically facts.
lmao u finally gave up on wow after the last shitty SOD phases :D
Guild Wars 3 will kill the company. Who wants to move to a sequel MMO with no content? if the game is lacking content, then it needs content.
Is it official though? I don't even see a release date.
@@mrmeepsyt5917 There is no release date because it is yet again another leak of share holders talking about thinking a GW3 is happening because of what the devs said half a decade ago about trying a GW3 concept test, but neglecting to mention the part that it was abandoned.
I think i had exactly the same character like u at launch and i was bored beyond belief after a month, the pvp was balls too and after getting max gear it feels like u can only do repetitive dogwater content to horizontally progress. I guess it;'s different in 2025?
Bla bla bla... This video should have been like 5 min long. I lost interest after 3-4 min.
Thumbs down for wasting people time with endless insignificant talk.
jesus I got click baited so easily. This is a dogshit game but I respect the grind :D
Ngl, I like this new definition of clickbait. If I don't agree with the opinion, clickbait lmao
Bro is out of content ☠
I've got 15 more MMOs to get through. After that, I'll be out of content lmao
I love it, but it s too big. As soon as they launch a new expansion no body walks the « old » zone anymore. And it does lack a lot à build creativity as every mmo nowadays…